Word: boredome
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...barnacles of boredom been scraped from the original plays, The Long Voyage Home would be a first-rate picture. As it is, a top director and expert character actors go a long way toward making O'Neill a successful screen writer...
...scenarist Jean Renoir is too subtle to stage a Gallicorgy after the style exemplified by Quo Vadis?. He prefers to draw out indignation, letting the characters condemn themselves by treating infidelity, indelicacy and even brutality as daily steps toward a Good Life whose only end is to escape boredom. Not that decadence is portrayed as innately vile. Rather, its syrupy charm cloys, smothering its cultists' sensibilities until stock motions, reactions and conversations replace emotions...
...soon tasted blood in Russia, flying alongside Stuka bombers as they chopped up Soviet columns. He was vastly enjoying the war when They-the anonymous, know-nothing They which is GHQ to every operational airman-shipped him back to Germany to patrol the North Sea. There Knoke learned that boredom is the first reality of war. He flew 100 patrols over grey, faceless ocean, with scarcely a sight of the British Blenheim bombers that were ranging the German coast. "We all live together as airmen, in a strange little world of our own, at the end of the runway...
...from the envelopes in Memorial hall this afternoon. For we are sure that the multi-colored cards will brazenly sport the word "spring" whether or not the unequivocal sign of the robin follows. We don't know whether our doubts are entirely due to the seasonal slush or the boredom of the examination period. Perhaps the scientists and the politicians should rightfully share part of the guilt. Every year now, we've felt that it's only through a chance combination of treaties, agreements, and nervous glances across barbed-wire border that we will see the next Spring. Even...
...split second, then caps the stunt by getting behind the wheel of a Cadillac and driving off. In "The Morning of the Day They Did It," two U.S. military men on SPCA duty ("Space Platform for Checking Aggression") blow the earth to bits out of sheer boredom. "About Myself is a nightmare comedy of numbers set in an Orwellian bureaucracy. ("My left front tire is Number 48KE8846, my right front tire is Number 63T6895".) But if Humorist White jangles the nerves with predictable frequency, he remembers how to jiggle the funny bone too. His four-page "Across the Street...